contemporary observer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontemporaryandobserver
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contemporary
adjective
uk/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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observer
noun[C]
uk/əbˈzɜː.vər/us/əbˈzɝː.vɚ/
a person who watches what happens but has no active part ...
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(Definition ofcontemporaryandobserverfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But that is the easy judgement with hindsight of thecontemporaryobserver.
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What is missing, however, is much in the way of evaluation of the ideas advanced by contemporary observers.
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This article has demonstrated that contemporary observers did not see events quite in this way.
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For some contemporary observers, colonial rule was as much to blame as chiefs.
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This front generation bears no trace of the weariness, apathy or cynicism noted by so many contemporary observers and later historians.
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Abstinence is a much more important factor than contemporary observers of the so-called permissive society would have us believe.
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They may also explain the elusive quality of the ' middle sort of people ', apparent only to some contemporary observers, and rarely to the group themselves.
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Contemporary observers were conscious of the methodological pitfalls.
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The frequency with which the color and pattern fashions of kanga changed and went out of fashion was remarked upon by nearly all contemporary observers.
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Several other contemporary observers also took the view that the crisis was primarily due to 'man-made' factors.
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In the early 20th century, the great majority of the population was still employed in agriculture; onecontemporaryobservermentioned common occupations as farm workers, milkmaids and washer women.
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Of this, incidentally, some contemporary observers had no doubt.
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Even if many contemporary observers disapproved of migrating child workers, the children themselves may have been of another opinion.
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These insights by contemporary observers have been drawn on to varying extents by later generations of scholars.
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This further cemented nuclear-family patterns, already identified by critical contemporary observers as moulding the life-style.
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The process whereby royalist property was sequestered has long been attacked both by contemporary observers and by modern historians.
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Contemporary observers feared that there was an audience for such opinions.
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The similarities in timing and trajectory of the two budding imperial powers led many contemporary observers to predict a clash, one which many historians have emphasised.
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